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Opening a can of worms here, but I might have an opinion going against the grain. The minimum wage rate is not the problem, technically it should be $0.
The issue here is basically legislation, policies and government, that has been captured by these big corporations to be business friendly and antagonistic to the workers.
Make no mistake being friendly towards businesses should be important, basically the driver of the economy, why these three billionaires are not the root cause of your problem. Your root problem has been the corporate capture of your government, that has bled through your other pillars of democracy, your judicial and finally the big one, the people. Americans are, in my opinion, so addicted to fast news, so that everything should stir an emotional response. You have been polarised for political and vested interest gains. You have let yourselves down. By not uniting, by dividing yourselves, you the people have become weak, thus a united market will take advantage of you, distract you to non issues, while conquering your nation.
It can be changed but only if there is a cultural change, and the will of the people will guide that change.
The poor do not have the ability to manipulate mass quantities of people, the rich do. Because they are rich and have the resources and connections to accomplish this. They buy politicians and manipulate to cause the conditions you describe. If they were not rich, they could not do that.
Blaming the poor for being manipulated is bad faith. And victim blaming is not an effective rallying strategy.
Hey I represent the Bad Take Society, and I wanted to recognize you for the absolute worst take I've seen today.
You can't really believe this right? Surely you're trolling or being sarcastic or something? I can't imagine a person so utterly cucked by big business is even real.
If regulation was bad for the poor and good for the rich the rich and large corporations wouldn't try so hard to get rid of regulation.
They're not trying to get rid of regulation though; they're trying to make sure that the regulation is in their favor. That's what regulatory capture is. They're going to be fine with regulations that help cement their place in society.
Regulatory capture is certainly a thing but all that "small government" and "too much red tape" rhetoric free market parties have been spewing for decades is not that.
Peak liberalism.